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Family PLACUNIDAE Rafinesque, 1815


Compiler and date details

December 2010 - Peter U. Middelfart, Winston F. Ponder & Des Beechey, Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  • Placentidae Gray, 1847.
  • Placunanomiinae Beu, 1967.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PLACUNIDAE: Placuna (Ephippium) lincolnii (Gray, 1849) [Australian records mostly refer to Placuna quadrangula (Philipsson, 1788)] — Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (restricted to the Philippines)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023 BIVALVIA 22-Aug-2023 MOVED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Apr-2018 BIVALVIA 23-Apr-2018 MODIFIED Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014 BIVALVIA 22-Aug-2023 MODIFIED ABRS
14-Jun-2013 22-Aug-2023 MODIFIED
17-Aug-2012 MODIFIED